The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 - 2024 period.
The Foundation provides funding for OA fees in accordance with their Open Access policy and has kindly provided data on those expenditures to OpenAPC.
Contact person for the data at Gates Foundation is Ashley Farley.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 9,170 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 23 865 243€ and the average fee is 2 603€.
The following table provides an overwiew:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 2890 | 8979994 | 3107 |
| Springer Nature | 2048 | 5483544 | 2678 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1437 | 2736642 | 1904 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 866 | 2118559 | 2446 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 773 | 2094042 | 2709 |
| MDPI AG | 719 | 1296505 | 1803 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 664 | 2020111 | 3042 |
| BMJ | 593 | 1610227 | 2715 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 388 | 363531 | 937 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 288 | 726852 | 2524 |
| Informa UK Limited | 242 | 516668 | 2135 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 196 | 489457 | 2497 |
| International Global Health Society | 119 | 197061 | 1656 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 115 | 298980 | 2600 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 109 | 283081 | 2597 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 103 | 391727 | 3803 |
| American Society for Nutrition | 102 | 311892 | 3058 |
| SAGE Publications | 53 | 106711 | 2013 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 52 | 160723 | 3091 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 47 | 96147 | 2046 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 47 | 171650 | 3652 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 35 | 80596 | 2303 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 34 | 122701 | 3609 |
| Scientific Societies | 32 | 82713 | 2585 |
| Crop Science Society of America | 23 | 36950 | 1607 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 20 | 35618 | 1781 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 18 | 43514 | 2417 |
| IEEE | 18 | 28545 | 1586 |
| IWA Publishing | 17 | 26580 | 1564 |
| Academic Journals | 16 | 6682 | 418 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 14 | 54344 | 3882 |
| IOP Publishing | 14 | 26766 | 1912 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 14 | 37154 | 2654 |
| Microbiology Society | 13 | 25272 | 1944 |
| The Royal Society | 13 | 26379 | 2029 |
| Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd | 11 | 7355 | 669 |
| Genetics Society of America | 10 | 18370 | 1837 |
| International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | 9 | 23834 | 2648 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 9 | 39084 | 4343 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 9 | 14135 | 1571 |
| American Astronomical Society | 8 | 16623 | 2078 |
| Health Affairs (Project Hope) | 8 | 29385 | 3673 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 7 | 10805 | 1544 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 7 | 16236 | 2320 |
| MyJove Corporation | 6 | 17461 | 2910 |
| S. Karger AG | 6 | 18479 | 3080 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 5 | 15573 | 3115 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 5 | 1520 | 304 |
| EMBO | 5 | 20673 | 4135 |
| Emerald | 5 | 9134 | 1827 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 5 | 5517 | 1103 |
| PeerJ | 5 | 5809 | 1162 |
| Practical Action Publishing | 5 | 4884 | 977 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 5 | 11115 | 2223 |
| The Endocrine Society | 5 | 12537 | 2507 |
| BioScientifica | 4 | 7649 | 1912 |
| Brill | 4 | 6790 | 1698 |
| Duke University Press | 4 | 9843 | 2461 |
| African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development | 3 | 802 | 267 |
| American Thoracic Society | 3 | 4833 | 1611 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 3 | 8399 | 2800 |
| Guttmacher Institute | 3 | 6588 | 2196 |
| International Association for Food Protection | 3 | 8119 | 2706 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 3 | 3688 | 1229 |
| Science Alert | 3 | 1049 | 350 |
| The Company of Biologists | 3 | 10118 | 3373 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 3 | 3665 | 1222 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 5679 | 1893 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) | 2 | 7464 | 3732 |
| American Educational Research Association (AERA) | 2 | 1805 | 903 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4769 | 2385 |
| American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) | 2 | 3211 | 1605 |
| Annual Reviews | 2 | 8631 | 4316 |
| AOSIS | 2 | 2065 | 1032 |
| ASME International | 2 | 5217 | 2608 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 2 | 3687 | 1844 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 3161 | 1580 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 2 | 453 | 226 |
| Fortune Journals | 2 | 3753 | 1877 |
| Future Science, LTD | 2 | 3537 | 1768 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 2 | 3631 | 1815 |
| IGI Global | 2 | 2611 | 1305 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 2 | 1883 | 941 |
| Intellect | 2 | 2128 | 1064 |
| Japanese Society of Animal Reproduction | 2 | 2853 | 1426 |
| Maad Rayan Publishing Company | 2 | 1422 | 711 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 4411 | 2206 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 2 | 6385 | 3192 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3661 | 1830 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 2 | 465 | 233 |
| Pan African Medical Journal | 2 | 319 | 159 |
| Science Publishing Group | 2 | 471 | 235 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2 | 1016 | 508 |
| Southern Cross Publishing | 2 | 729 | 364 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 1873 | 1873 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1903 | 1903 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 2516 | 2516 |
| American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) | 1 | 2843 | 2843 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 246 | 246 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 916 | 916 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 1778 | 1778 |
| American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 1 | 5857 | 5857 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 1 | 3420 | 3420 |
| Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology | 1 | 196 | 196 |
| Austin Publishing Group | 1 | 840 | 840 |
| Biomedical Research Network, LLC | 1 | 421 | 421 |
| Bouti Publishing | 1 | 231 | 231 |
| Bristol University Press | 1 | 1270 | 1270 |
| ClinMed International Library | 1 | 1269 | 1269 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1137 | 1137 |
| De Gruyter | 1 | 1274 | 1274 |
| Edinburgh University Press | 1 | 1137 | 1137 |
| Enviro Research Publishers | 1 | 324 | 324 |
| FASEB | 1 | 2121 | 2121 |
| Fundacao Faculdade de Medicina | 1 | 1318 | 1318 |
| Global Health and Education Projects, Inc. (GHEP) | 1 | 530 | 530 |
| Herald Scholarly Open Access | 1 | 1206 | 1206 |
| Hipatia Press | 1 | 438 | 438 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 2661 | 2661 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2378 | 2378 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2179 | 2179 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1275 | 1275 |
| Journal of Infection in Developing Countries | 1 | 269 | 269 |
| Mark Allen Group | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| National Inquiry Services Center (NISC) | 1 | 2632 | 2632 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 3027 | 3027 |
| Rynnye Lyan Resources | 1 | 211 | 211 |
| Sci Forschen, Inc. | 1 | 671 | 671 |
| Sciencedomain International | 1 | 59 | 59 |
| SciRes Literature LLC | 1 | 1523 | 1523 |
| SNF Swedish Nutrition Foundation | 1 | 1797 | 1797 |
| Society for Sociological Science | 1 | 584 | 584 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1371 | 1371 |
| Swansea University | 1 | 969 | 969 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 1 | 213 | 213 |
| Universitas Jenderal Soedirman | 1 | 85 | 85 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 4368 | 4368 |
| University of Wisconsin Press | 1 | 2062 | 2062 |
| UNS Solo | 1 | 206 | 206 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 1 | 2108 | 2108 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
